Cambridge history of twentieth-century political thought / edited by Terence Ball and Richard Bellamy.

Series statement on jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-734) and indexes.

Part I. The changing fortunes of liberal democracy. The coming of the welfare state / Michael Freeden -- Politics and markets: Keynes and his critics / Wayne Parsons -- The advent of the masses and the making of the modern theory of democracy / Richard Bellamy -- Nationalism and imperialism / James Mayall -- Fascism and racism / Stanley G. Payne -- Conservatism / Noèel O'Sullivan -- Christian democracy / Mario Caciagli -- Critics of totalitarianism / Jeffrey C. Isaac -- The end of the welfare state? / Robert E. Goodin -- Part II. Varieties of Marxism. The Second International: socialism and social democracy / Dick Geary -- The Russian Revolution: an ideology in power / Neil Harding -- Asian communism / David McLellan -- Western Marxism / David McLellan -- French Marxism - existentialism to structuralism / Sunil Khilnani -- Part III. Science, modernism and politics. -- Positivism: reactions and developments / Melissa Lane -- Postmodernism: pathologies of modernity from Nietzsche to the post-structuralists / Peter Dews -- Weber, Durkheim and the sociology of the modern state / Antonino Palumbo, Alan Scott -- Freud and his followers / Paul Roazen -- Modernism in art, literature and political theory / Walter L. Adamson -- The new science of politics / James Farr -- Utilitarianism and beyond: contemporary analytical political theory / David Miller, Richard Dagger -- Part IV. New social movements and the politics of difference -- Pacifism and pacificism / Martin Ceadal -- Feminisms / Susan James -- Identity politics / James Tully -- Green political theory / Terence Ball -- Part V. Beyond Western political thought -- Nonwestern political thought / Bhikhu Parekh -- Islamic political thought / Salwa Ismail -- Epilogue: The grand dichotomy of the twentieth century / Steven Lukes.